Perhaps no surprise, but KDE, billed as a fully-featured desktop environment, comes out on top in my comparison with XFCE. My test was not intentional, but just happened. Experimenting with the seriously "not-for-noobs" Arch Linux distro, when I first...

My old Dell laptop, an Inspiron B130, is running Linux Mint 7, all set up with my Firefox bookmarks and passwords. The desktop (i.e. the 'desktop' appearance of the laptop, not to be confused with the larger PC workstation of the same name) is...

In playing around with different Linux distros, many forums recommended keeping the /home folder in its own partition, so that, as one installed different distros or OS's, the /home folder, with all of its data would remain intact. So I tried that....

Just a few notes, to go along with my previous Linux/Ubuntu posts. The PC in question, a Dell Inspiron 530S is a 2006 desktop with 3GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive, good enough to hold a whole lot of BitTorrent movies. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04...

As summer of 2009 approached, our lives were a little different: I was unemployed, so economizing was more important; some of the Manhunt kids were in college, or on their way, so they had other priorities; Elaine's new job at the local YWCA only gave...